Explains La Causa of Cesar Chavez and the UFW to organize poor migratory farm workers in the grape vineyards of California. Their success there is now under attack as the contracts previously won have expired and growers are refusing to resign them, aligning themselves instead with the Teamsters. Chavez and George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, claim that the Teamsters do not represent the interests of the workers.
Powerfully illustrated through the lives of three Mexican/Chicana women - Ramona Medina, Socorro Gomez-Potter, and Yolanda Almaraz-Esquivel - "Educating Change: Latina Activism and the Struggle for Educational Equity" documents a history of Mexican women's migration and activism, and considers its …
